§ 6. Sir FORTESCUE FLANNERYasked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether the Government of Russia will continue the same rate of import duty on agricultural machinery, namely, 75 kopecs per hundredweight, as formerly; and if he can state the result of any negotiations with the Russian Government upon the subject?
§ Lord ROBERT CECILBy the new temporary customs tariff introduced by the Russian Goernment on 25th March certain increases in customs duties were sanctioned, including an increase in certain cases in the duty on agricultural machinery. These changes were understood to be of a temporary nature due to existing circumstances, and though it has not been thought that the present is a suitable time for the initiation of negotiations on the subject, the matter has not been lost sight of.